Nechama Liss-Levinson
These regulations, brought to you by the same people who decided to separate children from their parents, will be particularly loathsome for women and for those who are LGBTQ.
How To Save a Life in the Next 72 Hours
Tag: Immigration
How Family Separation in the Holocaust Affected My Life Forever
Liat Katz
My father’s separation from his parents at a young age left him a broken, forever-grieving man. Sometimes I felt his body was physically there, but his soul had long left.
Standing Up for Immigrant Families, One Case at a Time
Eleanor J. Bader
I was horrified by what I saw and, in the middle of the hearing, I jumped into the center aisle, raised my hand, and asked the judge if she would grant a continuance so that I could find an attorney for this child.
What It’s Like to Help Immigrants at the Border Right Now
Eleanor J. Bader
“My grandparents’ stories motivate me to want to help people who are fleeing violence and brutality today.”
Pharaoh’s Family Separation Policy: A Midrash
Rabbi Phyllis Berman
I will never forget that day: not to know if he would life or die; not to know if he had be found and loved or abandoned and despised. Those were the thoughts in my mind-heart, but my breasts screamed with milk that no one would suckle.
Why Deporting an (Actual) Nazi Feels Hollow in the Age of Charlottesville
Jordana Horn
A world in which we are so willing to make sure justice is served to a 95 year old Nazi, but where our leaders call modern white supremacists “very fine people,” is confusing indeed.
#MeToo, The Supreme Court, and Immigration Cruelty: Connected by Misogyny
JoAnn Abraham
It seems that women are being targeted on multiple fronts, almost as if #MeToo and its power have provoked a vicious backlash
Five Things You Can Do Right Now for Abortion Rights
Kira Yates
Read up on (and spread awareness of) what it will look like in a post-Roe world.
Extra-legal abortions will look different from what they did in the 1970s.
Marilyn Sneiderman on Finding Optimism and a Life of Labor Organizing
Eleanor J. Bader
“I surround myself with young idealistic people who believe that we can and must change the world…We also can’t lose sight of the fact that there are a lot of incredible organizers out there doing fantastic work. The question for me is how we older people can best support them. “